Install Oracle Java 6 / 7 / 8 on Ubuntu 13.10

The Webupd8 Team created a ppa repository to make it easy to install Oracle Java for Ubuntu and Linux Mint users. So far, the ppa contains Java 6, 7, 8 installer for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, 13.04 Raring, 12.10 Quantal, and 12.04 Precise.

Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, follow the below steps to get started:

1.) If you’ve already installed OpenJDK in Ubuntu Software Center. Remove it by running this command:

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Is there any way to conctact the maintainer? The packages are bit outdated. Current version from Oracle, with important security updates is 7u51, and the one from the repo is 1.7.0_17, what is 7u17 I suppose…

i have installed ubuntu 13.1.0 version 32 bit and i have 1.8.0-60 version of java But its not executing java and it throws cannot execute binary file. May I know which version of java will support ubuntu 13.1.0 version 32 bit. Please suggest.

. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
after following these commands also i got same message that:
rlifesciences@rlifesciences-TravelMate-P243:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
Cannot add PPA: ‘ppa:webupd8team/java’.
Please check that the PPA name or format is correct.